Save As DAISY is open source software developed by
Microsoft. Once installed, it adds a "Save As Daisy" command to Microsoft Word
XP, 2003, and 2007 that converts Word documents into DAISY's Digital Talking
Book format. MathDaisy installs into Save As Daisy to support math conversion.

Increasingly, educators and publishers are being
required to accommodate their students with special needs by providing content
in the DAISY Book format. Students then use DAISY player software, dedicated
eBook readers, and other portable devices to read the DAISY Book. "DAISY Books
are the format of choice for accessible content. Now that Save As DAISY makes it
possible for educators to make their own accessible content, DAISY will really
take off. We were happy to work with the DAISY Consortium and Microsoft to make
this happen," said Paul R. Topping, President & CEO of Design Science.

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) is a
globally recognized XML standard for producing accessible and navigable
multimedia documents, including Digital Talking Books (DTBook), digital
textbooks, and synchronized audio/text books. DAISY is used by
NIMAS
(National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard) for accessible K-12
textbooks and by ePub, a widely used
standard for digital books. The latest version of the DAISY standard requires
that mathematics be represented in MathML,
the World Wide Web Consortium's standard for representing math notation in XML.

Save as DAISY with MathDaisy works well for
teachers and professors that must accommodate their students' needs. However,
organizations with their own publishing workflow, or those wanting to create a
more automated or more powerful DAISY production facility, should also be
interested in Design Science's MathFlow line of
products.

MathDaisy is US $97 for academic users, $179 for
non-academic users. Anyone can download MathDaisy from the
Design Science website and try it
free for 30 days.

About Design Science

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Long Beach,
California, Design Science develops software used by educators, scientists and
publishing professionals, including MathType, Equation Editor in Microsoft
Office, MathDaisy, MathFlow, MathPlayer and WebEQ, to communicate on the web and
in print. For more information please visit
www.dessci.com.